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Droseraceae
Round-leaf sundew
Drosera rotundifolia
Also known as Roundleaf sundew, Common sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, Drosera rotundifolia f. breviscapa
Indoor Plants · Native Plants · Carnivorous · Sundew · Bog Plant · Insectivorous · Sphagnum · Distilled Water · Terrarium · Humidity · Specialty Plant
Round-leaf sundew is a carnivorous plant that requires nutrient-poor, acidic growing media such as pure sphagnum moss, and must only ever be watered with distilled or rainwater — tap water will kill it. Place it in a sunny spot receiving at least 6 hours of direct light per day and keep it sitting in a shallow tray of distilled water to maintain the bog-like conditions it needs. Never feed it with fertilizer; it gets its nutrients by trapping and digesting insects.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water with distilled or rainwater only; keep the growing medium consistently wet by sitting the pot in a tray of water · Every 3-5 days
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–6.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Argentina South, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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